Advertising sign device



J. POPPER ADVERTISING SIGN DEVICE Filed July 28, 1945l Nov`. 21, 1944.

` ATTORNEY Patentved Nov. 21, 1944 VADVERTISING SIGN/DEVICE l' .Joseph Popper, deceased, late of Brooklyn, N. Y., by Ruby H. Popper, administratr-x,Brooklyn,

, applicati@ ,Julyf es, 1943,- seria1N0..-49s,617

1 Claim.

'This invention-relates to improvements in adivertising devices, such as a 'display sig-n or advertising-card which may be vmounted onfa suitable --frame 4orrack within .fa :street ca'rwbus, subway rcar or other publicl vehicle.

object of the invention is to provide a display sign having certain movable parts thereon, the movement of said parts being made to simu- 'latea'wave `formationor a series of wave riplets yofialiquid within a View opening shown in connection with the picture of a transparent bottle or like vccntainerand operated by vibration of the vehicle.

A further object of the invention is to provide an advertising sign yhaving mounted thereon a series or plurality of wave riplet members that are automatically movable in overlapping relation with each other, said movement requiring no supplemental power or impellingv means beyond that of the movement'or vibration of the vehicle itselfv to which said sign is mounted.

A further object of the invention is to provide for the applicability thereof to a movable or slidable object, such as, display engines, automobiles,

' trucks, movable doors, windows or other moving objects, including steamships.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the nature and features thereof will be more readily understood by the following description and the drawing accompanying the same, in

ywhich- Fig. 1 illustrates a display sign havingka picture lor representation of a bottle or like container, Asaid bottle 4displaying to view a series of vibrating members mounted in the front of the bottle in the picture.

Fig. 2 is an elevational View of the bottle picture showing in detail .the Vibrating members and their manner of mounting. l

Fig. 3 is a side sectional view of the display sign on a line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an elevational View showing a single vibrating or liquid-levelwavelet member, the wave motion of which is shown in dotted lines.

Referring to the drawing, the designation I shows the pictureof a bottle placed on a slight angle, and II are the vibrating members which are partially shown in the transparent View opening or section l2 'of the bottle. The picture Ill may be madeon a panel or card I3 bearing the` 50 picture of the bottle or other container for a liquid.

There is provided a lower neck portion IIa for each of the members II. These neck portions IIa are mounted upon flexible or springy wires II b and said resilient wires are mounted by means of screws II onto the rear portion of an enclosing wall I4 attached at therear of said :dis-

play sign or card I3.y The walll I4 is not in view 'when observing the front Vof the display-sign `and forms a protective enclosure'for the vibrating members II. s

the simulated liquid is observablek and where the tops of the vibrating members are visible to indicate 'the liquid level. Thevibration yvor movement lof the members I I not only move from .side t'o side, butlalso have -a certain amount of vertical or bobbing movement vvlfiicli'is due to the curved or L-shape of the spring wire or coiled spring IIb, said curved shape being shown by the bend of the wire at I Id.

The vibrating members II mounted in this manner, when subjected to the vibrating or moving inuence heretofore explained, swing'sideways and also bob lengthways giving the overall or composite appearance of wavelets on the top p of the simulated li'quidlevel of the bottle. f

The spring. wire I Ib may be a closed coil spring which permits of greater flexibility and sensitiveness to vibration impulses.

It will be seen that the method of mounting the individual wavelet members II places them in overlapping relation with respect to each other at the visible portions thereof and when viewed from the front of the bottle picture.

The view opening I2 forms aA transparent or open portion or space in the card I3 bearing the picture I0 of the transparent container. This view opening I2 is disposed across the upper portion of the bottle, in registry'with the location of the upper liquid level to illustrate the bottle as being normally filled, and extends across the width of the container picture Ill in order to vshow the entire surface of the liquid level. The several vibrating wavelet members II are disposed in lateral alignment within the one view opening I2. 2

The vibrating members I I are of curved arcuate form along their upper edges to simulate the undulation or wave shape of the liquid in surface riplet form, the upper edges being disposed below the top line representing the view opening I2, while the bottom edges are disposed below the lower line forming the view opening and thus hidden behind theA card I3. Furthermore, the Wavelet members II are arranged in tandem or alignment, one following the other within substantially the same or closely spaced and parallel adjacent planes. The several wavelet members are disposed within the single view opening I2 so that a number of liquid Waves or undulations are represented by the overlapping upright edges in conjunction with the aligned arrangement of the thin vibrating parts II extending across the view opening. ,n y V l At the center of the bottle picture there 'will be seen the wavelet member IlT in a somewhat companion members II, and the spring portion IIb of said member IIT being somewhatlonger in length as compared with the companion vi-` brating spring members II. Thev purpose of` the latter member IlT is to give a heightened and -depth effect by the movement of all the vibrating members when the sign is subjected to the vibration of an object such as a moving vehicle to which said sign is attached.

It will therefore be seen from the herein disclosure of the invention that an advertising display device of interesting and pleasing appear- `ance is provided and one which will compel attention. Furthermore, the device embodying the invention is easy of construction and inexpensive to manufacture.

This invention is presented to lill the need for a` useful advertising sign device. Various modiiications in construction, mode of operation, use and method, may and often do occur to others, especially so after they have benefited from the teachings of an invention. Accordingly, this disclosure is exemplary of the principles and equivalents without being limited to the present showing of the-invention. i

`elevated position above the front row of the Y What is claimedv is:

An advertising sign device comprising a panel bearing a picture symbolic of a container shown as holding liquid, a view opening formed in the upper portion of the panel and container picture in registry with the normal level of the liquid, a plurality of thin sheet form wavelet members operatively mounted on vthe sign device behind the view opening, the wavelet members having upright edges disposed in tandem .relation and in closely spaced parallel planes and also in overlapping arrangement with each other, the wavelet members also being formed with upper arcuate edges which merge with each other by reason of said overlapping arrangement and which thus simulate the liquid level as having an undulated wave formation, the upper arcuate Aedges of the wavelet members being. disposed below the top line of the view opening, while the lower edges of said wavelet members are disposed below the lower line of said view opening, and resilient means mounting each arcuate wavelet member separately on the sign device, whereby any vibration of the panel bearing the picture is imparted to each wavelet member through its separate resilient mounting means to separately actuate simultaneously the several wavelet members which thereby simulate a natural Wave motion by the action of the several arcuate edges discernible through the view opening.

RUBY H. POPPER, Administratria: of the Estate of Joseph Popper,

Deceased. 

